Narrative construction in Czech silent cinema storytelling :
National and international tendencies

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Narrative construction in Czech silent cinema storytelling : National and international tendencies

KOKEŠ, Radomír D.

Základní údaje

Originální název

Narrative construction in Czech silent cinema storytelling : National and international tendencies

Autoři

KOKEŠ, Radomír D. (203 Česká republika, garant, domácí)

Vydání

Globalizing Screenwriting : 14th Screenwriting Research Network International Conference (Wien), 22. – 24. 9. 2022, Vídeň, 2022

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Prezentace na konferencích

Obor

60405 Studies on Film, Radio and Television

Stát vydavatele

Rakousko

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

Conference program

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14210/22:00129287

Organizační jednotka

Filozofická fakulta

Klíčová slova anglicky

Poetics of Cinema; Czech Cinema; Silent Cinema; Film Narrative; Film Style; Research Project

Štítky

rivok

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam

Změněno: 1. 3. 2023 23:52, Mgr. Michal Večeřa, Ph.D.

Anotace

V originále

In my paper, presented at Globalizing Screenwriting: 14th Screenwriting Research Network Conference in Vienna, I asked two more general questions that are related – and for which such a small and peripheral national cinema like Czech cinema seems to be a suitable explanatory tool. In doing so, I focused on the silent period, when Czech cinema represented a relatively diverse and still rather unexplored field of artistic possibilities. This paper presented project follows the research tradition of the poetics of cinema, so it works with a combination of detailed analysis of films, knowledge of particular scripts and screenwriting manuals, and taking into account contemporary practices within the filmmaking community. First, I am interested in what identifying features of international models of screenwriting and narrative can tell us about such cinema, whose production is primarily intended for a local audience. In what ways have filmmakers responded to these models? What has this meant for the shape of local screenwriting and films – and to what extent? Second, I am interested in what modes of narrative construction alternative to the internationally established practices of the 1920s can tell us about international narrative norms. What patterns of other options can we discern in the silent period and why? In my paper, I developed these two perspectives using the example of the Czech silent period. We can observe (a) several synchronic alternatives of the narrative construction of feature films and (b) successive diachronic shifts in the artistic choices of specific filmmakers. As the ability of Czech films to compete with foreign films in Czech distribution grew more robust, the dilemma of following and not following the Hollywood model entered a new context.

Návaznosti

GA22-23827S, projekt VaV

Název: Před Barrandovem: Narativní a stylová poetika českého filmu do roku 1933

Investor: Grantová agentura ČR, Před Barrandovem: Narativní a stylová poetika českého filmu do roku 1933

Citovat

KOKEŠ, Radomír D. Narrative construction in Czech silent cinema storytelling : National and international tendencies. In Globalizing Screenwriting : 14th Screenwriting Research Network International Conference (Wien), 22. – 24. 9. 2022, Vídeň. 2022.

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KOKEŠ, Radomír D. Narrative construction in Czech silent cinema storytelling : National and international tendencies. In \textit{Globalizing Screenwriting : 14th Screenwriting Research Network International Conference (Wien), 22. – 24. 9. 2022, Vídeň}. 2022.

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